By Rob Wood On January 23, 2006<\/p>\n
Article by Rob Wood<\/p>\n
E-mail:info@jamdo.com<\/p>\n
There are many things that a blogger should do when they start a new blog, but there are also a few things that will almost ensure failure. Here is a brief list of a few things that will almost ensure that your blog never gets off the ground.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t post regularly \u2013 this is a great one if you want your new readers to never return to the site and to make sure that the search engines take their time indexing you. Posting once a week or less ensures that your readers rarely find anything new on your site and makes them go to others sites to find what they are looking for.<\/p>\n
Post About Anything You Feel Like \u2013 People will read sites because they are interested in a niche. There are not many people who can draw and keep and audience by writing about their private musing on life. Sites that stick to a tightly defined niche or category will usually outperform sites that have more general themes.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t Post on Related Blogs \u2013 If you avoid commenting constructively on similar blogs to your own then you abandon one of the best ways to draw traffic that is already interested in your topic. By creating a sense of community with bloggers in a similar niche you are helping grow that niche together \u2013 there are very few niches that aren\u2019t big enough for more than one blog.<\/p>\n
Steal Content \u2013 So it\u2019s difficult to always come up with your own stuff for your new blog \u2013 yup, that\u2019s just part of blogging. But taking other\u2019s content from their blogs (even ones with creative commons licenses) will get you a very bad name in your niche very quickly. You need to come up with your own stuff. Sure, you can quote other blogs, but make sure you add your own value to the story.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t Worry About Search Engine Optimization \u2013 Sure some people were lucky enough to draw massive amounts of traffic from search engines without ever having heard of Search Engine Optimization, but they are a minority. You need to know at least the basics, which means putting keywords in your titles, in your first sentence, bolded, italicized and then throughout your stories. Lots of incoming links don\u2019t hurt either. Do all of this and you will start to get traffic from the search engines.<\/p>\n
This is by no means an exhaustive list. There are many things you can do to damage the chances of success for your blog. But these are some of the main ones that you need to avoid. For more tips on blogs don\u2019t forget to check out http:\/\/jamdo.com<\/p>\n